# 2024 Stockholm International Film Festival

The 35th Stockholm International Film Festival took place from 6 to 17 November 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. Sean Baker's drama film Anora opened the festival. Historical drama film Nickel Boys won the main award of the festival, Bronze Horse.
Greek-French director Costa-Gavras was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

## Official selection
### Opening film

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Anora | Anora | Sean Baker | United States |

### Stockholm Competition

The following films were selected for the main international competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Blue Sun Palace | Blue Sun Palace | Constance Tsang | United States |
| Bluish | Bluish | Milena Czernovsky, Lilith Kraxner | Austria |
| Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Lin Jianjie | China, France, Denmark, Qatar |
| The Devil's Bath | Des Teufels Bad | Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala | Austria, Germany |
| Dìdi | Dìdi | Sean Wang | United States |
| Drowning Dry | Sesės | Laurynas Bareiša | Lithuania, Latvia |
| Familiar Touch | Familiar Touch | Sarah Friedland | United States |
| Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet | Belgium, France, Germany |
| La cocina | La cocina | Alonso Ruizpalacios | United States, Mexico |
| My Sunshine | ぼくのお日さま | Hiroshi Okuyama | Japan |
| Nickel Boys | Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross | United States |
| Peacock | Pfau | Bernhard Wenger | Austria, Germany |
| Reinas | Reinas | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland, Peru, Spain |
| Sad Jokes | Sad Jokes | Fabian Stumm | Germany |
| Sons | Vogter | Gustav Möller | Denmark, Sweden, France |
| The Swedish Torpedo | Den svenska torpeden | Frida Kempff | Sweden |
| Toxic | Akiplėša | Saulė Bliuvaitė | Lithuania |
| Universal Language | Une langue universelle | Matthew Rankin | Canada |
| Who Do I Belong To | ماء العين | Meryam Joobeur | Tunisia, Canada, France, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia |
| Wild Diamond | Diamant brut | Agathe Riedinger | France |

### Stockholm Documentary Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Family | Une famille | Christine Angot | France |
| Apocalypse in the Tropics | Apocalipse nos Trópicos | Petra Costa | Brazil, United States, Denmark |
| Avicii – I'm Tim | Avicii – I'm Tim | Henrik Burman | Sweden, United States |
| Black Box Diaries | Black Box Diaries | Shiori Itō | Japan, United States, United Kingdom |
| Ernest Cole: Lost and Found | Ernest Cole: Lost and Found | Raoul Peck | United States |
| Eternal You | Eternal You | Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck | Germany, United States |
| Favoriten | Favoriten | Ruth Beckermann | Austria |
| Garbo: Where Did You Go? | Garbo: Where Did You Go? | Lorna Tucker | United Kingdom |
| Gaucho Gaucho | Gaucho Gaucho | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | United States |
| Hacking Hate | Hacking Hate | Simon Klose | Sweden, Norway, Denmark |
| Homegrown | Homegrown | Michael Premo | United States |
| Never Look Away | Never Look Away | Lucy Lawless | New Zealand |
| Porcelain War | Porcelain War | Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev | United States, Australia, Ukraine |
| Real | Реал | Oleh Sentsov | Croatia, Ukraine |
| Riefenstahl | Riefenstahl | Andres Veiel | Germany |
| Yintah | Yintah | Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano, Jennifer Wickham | Canada |

### Masters

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Traveler's Needs | 여행자의 필요 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Anora | Anora | Sean Baker | United States |
| Blitz | Blitz | Steve McQueen | United States, United Kingdom |
| By the Stream | 수유천 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Cloud | クラウド | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| Dying | Sterben | Matthias Glasner | Germany |
| Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | United States, France |
| Kill the Jockey | El jockey | Luis Ortega | Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, United States |
| Last Breath | Le dernier souffle | Costa-Gavras | France |
| Oh, Canada | Oh, Canada | Paul Schrader | United States |
| When Fall Is Coming | Quand vient l'automne | François Ozon | France |

### Open Zone

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Alpha. | Alpha. | Jan-Willem van Ewijk | Netherlands, Switzerland, Slovenia |
| Animale | Animale | Emma Benestan | France |
| Bushido | 碁盤斬り | Kazuya Shiraishi | Japan |
| Matt and Mara | Matt and Mara | Kazik Radwanski | Canada |
| The Mohican | Le Mohican | Frédéric Farrucci | France |
| The Other Way Around | Volveréis | Jonás Trueba | Spain, France |
| Red Path | Les Enfants rouges | Lotfi Achour | France, Tunisia |
| Rumours | Rumours | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Sebastian | Sebastian | Mikko Mäkelä | United Kingdom, Finland, Belgium |
| Souleymane's Story | L'Histoire de Souleymane | Boris Lojkine | France |
| Stranger Eyes | 默視錄 | Yeo Siew Hua | Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States |
| Veni Vidi Vici | Veni Vidi Vici | Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann | Austria |
| The Witness | The Witness | Nader Saeivar | Germany, Austria, Iran |

### Icons

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Real Pain | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg | United States, Poland |
| The Assessment | The Assessment | Fleur Fortuné | Germany |
| Bob Trevino Likes It | Bob Trevino Likes It | Tracie Laymon | United States |
| Bring Them Down | Bring Them Down | Christopher Andrews | Ireland |
| Maria | Maria | Pablo Larraín | Chile, Italy, Germany |
| Millers in Marriage | Millers in Marriage | Edward Burns | United States |
| The Return | The Return | Uberto Pasolini | Italy, United States, France, Greece, United Kingdom |
| Sacramento | Sacramento | Michael Angarano | United States |
| Skincare | Skincare | Austin Peters | United States, Italy |
| The Summer Book | The Summer Book | Charlie McDowell | United Kingdom, Finland, United States |
| The Uninvited | The Uninvited | Nadia Conners | United States |

### American Independents

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Between the Temples | Between the Temples | Nathan Silver | United States |
| Christmas Eve in Miller's Point | Christmas Eve in Miller's Point | Tyler Taormina | United States |
| The Code | The Code | Eugene Kotlyarenko | United States |
| Eephus | Eephus | Carson Lund | United States |
| Good One | Good One | India Donaldson | United States |
| Millers in Marriage | Millers in Marriage | Edward Burns | United States |
| Snack Shack | Snack Shack | Adam Rehmeier | United States |
| Thelma | Thelma | Josh Margolin | United States |
| Turn Me On | Turn Me On | Michael Tyburski | United States |
| Vulcanizadora | Vulcanizadora | Joel Potrykus | United States |

### Discovery

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire | The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire | Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | United States |
| Carissa | Carissa | Devon Delmar, Jason Jacobs | South Africa |
| Edge of Night | Edge of Night | Türker Süer | Germany, Turkey |
| Gloria! | Gloria! | Margherita Vicario | Italy, Switzerland |
| The Heirloom | The Heirloom | Ben Petrie | Canada |
| Loveable | Elskling | Lilja Ingolfsdottir | Norway |
| Manas | Manas | Marianna Brennand | Brazil |
| No Sleep Till | No Sleep Till | Alexandra Simpson | United States, Switzerland |
| One of Those Days When Hemme Dies | Hemme'nin öldüğü günlerden biri | Murat Fıratoğlu | Turkey |
| Panopticon | Panoptikoni | George Sikharulidze | France, Georgia, Italy, Romania |
| Sugar Island | Sugar Island | Johanne Gómez Terrero | Dominican Republic, Spain |
| The Umesh Chronicles | The Umesh Chronicles | Pooja Kaul | Sweden, India |

### Twilight Zone

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Apartment 7A | Apartment 7A | Natalie Erika James | United States, Australia, United Kingdom |
| Exhuma | 파묘 | Jang Jae-hyun | South Korea |
| Frogman | Frogman | Anthony Cousins | United States |
| Heretic | Heretic | Scott Beck and Bryan Woods | United States |
| I, the Executioner | 베테랑2 | Ryoo Seung-wan | South Korea |
| I Saw the TV Glow | I Saw the TV Glow | Jane Schoenbrun | United States |
| In a Violent Nature | In a Violent Nature | Chris Nash | Canada |
| Nightbitch | Nightbitch | Marielle Heller | United States |
| Sister Midnight | Sister Midnight | Karan Kandhari | United Kingdom |
| Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In | 九龙城寨之围城 | Soi Cheang | Hong Kong |

### Stockholm Series

| English title | Original title | Creator(s) | Production country |
| End of Summer (episodes 1–2) | Slutet på sommaren | Björn Carlström, Stefan Thunberg | Sweden |
| The Helicopter Heist (episodes 1–2) | Helikopterrånet | Ronnie Sandahl | Sweden |
| The Pirate Bay | The Pirate Bay | Piotr Marciniak | Sweden |
| Vargasommar | Vargasommar | Jesper Ganslandt, Oskar Söderlund | Sweden |
| Whiskey on the Rocks (episodes 1–3) | Whiskey on the Rocks (episodes 1–3) | Björn Stein | Sweden |
| Special Presentation ||||
| Yellowstone (season 5, part 2; episode 1) | Yellowstone (season 5, part 2; episode 1) | Taylor Sheridan, John Linson | United States |

## Awards

The following awards were presented at the festival:
* Best Film (Bronze Horse): Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross
* Best Director: Matthew Rankin for Universal Language
* Best First Feature: Peacock by Bernhard Wenger
* Best Screenplay: Alonso Ruizpalacios for La cocina
* Best Actress: Malou Khébizi for Wild Diamond
* Best Actor: Izaac Wang for Dìdi
* Best Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht for The Devil's Bath
* Best Documentary: Porcelain War by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev
* Best Short: The Sea In Between by Lun Sevnik

### Lifetime Achievement Award

* Costa-Gavras

### Stockholm Achievement Award

* Jesse Eisenberg

### Visionary Award

* Sean Baker
* Steve McQueen

### Rising Star Award

* Erik Svedberg-Zelman